A Malay loanword used in Manglish (Malaysian English) and Singlish (Singaporean English) meaning upside down, inverted, or the wrong way around. It functions as a predicative adjective and is used naturally by Malay-English bilinguals to describe things that are reversed or flipped. It can also be used figuratively for situations that are topsy-turvy or back to front, often with a slightly exasperated tone.
You put the map terbalik again -- that's south at the top.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(Manglish, Singlish, predicative) ; inverted.
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